Female-specific insect lethality engineered using alternative splicing

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 353-357

  Fu, Guoliang ^a   Condon, Kirsty C ^a,b   Epton, Matthew J ^b   Gong, Peng ^b   Jin, Li ^a   Condon, George C ^a   Morrison, Neil I ^a,b   Dafa'Alla, Tarig H ^a   Alphey, Luke ^a,b  

^a OXITEC LIMITED   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

FRUIT FLIES; INFERTILE MATINGS; SPLICING; STERILIZATION;

PEST CONTROL;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY; NONHUMAN; PEST CONTROL; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; TRANSACTIVATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CERATITIS CAPITATA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INSECT CONTROL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX FACTORS; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CERATITIS CAPITATA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA;

EID: 33947187646     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1283     Document Type: Article

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